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Holiday of the Light Christ's Resurrection Easter is the main event of the year for Orthodox Christians and the biggest Orthodox holiday. It is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first spring full moon (between March 22/April 4 and April 25/May 8). In 2011, Easter is celebrated on April 24 (April 11, old style).

This is the oldest holiday of the Christian Church, which was established and celebrated already in apostolic times. The ancient church, under the name of Easter, combined two memories - about the sufferings and about the Resurrection of Christ, and dedicated the days preceding and following the Resurrection to its celebration. To designate both parts of the holiday, special names were used - Easter of suffering, or Easter of the Cross and Easter of the Resurrection.

The word "Easter" comes from Greek and means "transition", "deliverance", that is, the feast of the Resurrection of Christ denotes the passage from death to life and from earth to heaven.

In the first centuries of Christianity, Easter was celebrated in different churches at different times. In the East, in the churches of Asia Minor, it was celebrated on the 14th day of Nisan (according to our account, March-April), no matter what day of the week this number fell on. The Western Church performed it on the first Sunday after the spring full moon. An attempt to establish agreement between the churches on this issue was made under St. Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, in the middle of the 2nd century. The First Ecumenical Council of 325 decided to celebrate Easter everywhere at the same time. The Council's definition of Easter has not reached us.

Since apostolic times, the church has celebrated Easter services at night. Like the ancient chosen people, who were awake on the night of their deliverance from Egyptian slavery, Christians are also awake on the sacred and pre-festive and saving night of the Bright Resurrection of Christ. Shortly before midnight on Holy Saturday, the Midnight Office is served. The priest removes the Shroud from the tomb, brings it into the altar through the Royal Doors and places it on the throne, where it remains for forty days, until the Ascension of the Lord.

The procession on Easter night is the procession of the Church towards the resurrected Savior. The procession takes place three times around the temple with the continuous ringing of bells and the singing of "Thy Resurrection, Christ the Savior, the angels sing in heaven, and on earth make us on earth glorify Thee with a pure heart." Having gone around the temple, the procession stops in front of the closed doors of the altar, as if at the entrance to the Holy Sepulcher. And the joyful news is heard: "Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death and bestowing life on those in the tombs." The doors open and the whole sacred host solemnly enters the radiant temple. The singing of the Easter canon begins.

At the end of Matins, the priest reads the famous "Sermon of St. John Chrysostom", which describes the celebration and significance of Easter. After the service, all the worshipers approach the priest, who holds the cross in his hands, kiss the cross and christen with it, and then with each other.

In some churches, immediately after Matins, the Bright Paschal Liturgy is served, during which the worshipers who fasted, confessed and received communion during Holy Week can again receive communion without confession if no major sins have been committed during the elapsed time.

After the service, since the fast is over, the worshipers usually break their fast (they eat fast - not fast) at the temple or at home.

Easter is celebrated for seven days, that is, the whole week, and therefore this week is called Bright Easter Week. Each day of the week is also called bright; Bright Monday, Bright Tuesday, etc., and the last day, Bright Saturday. Services are held daily. The Royal Doors are open all week.

The entire period before the Ascension (40 days after Easter) is considered the Easter period and the Orthodox greet each other with the greeting "Christ is Risen!" and the answer "Truly Risen!"

The most common and integral symbols of Easter are painted eggs, Easter and Easter cake.

It has long been accepted that the first meal after a forty-day fast should be a painted egg consecrated in the church. The tradition of dyeing eggs appeared a long time ago: boiled eggs are dyed in a wide variety of colors and their combinations, some masters paint them by hand, depicting the faces of saints, churches and other attributes of this wonderful holiday on them. Hence the name "krashenka" or "pysanka" appeared. It is customary to exchange them when meeting with all acquaintances.

For Easter, a sweet curd Easter is always prepared. They prepare it on the Thursday before the holiday, and consecrate it on Sunday night.

Easter cake symbolizes how Christ ate bread with the disciples so that they would believe in his resurrection. Easter cake baked yeast dough in cylindrical shapes.

All Orthodox people sincerely believe in the special properties of Easter symbols, and from year to year, adhering to the traditions of their ancestors, they decorate the festive table with these dishes.

The material was prepared on the basis of information from open sources

Last update - 01/25/2017

Easter - Bright Resurrection of Christ, main holiday Christians, Orthodox and Catholics in 2017 celebrate April 16th.

The Church celebrates Easter for 40 days - the same as Christ was with the disciples after His Resurrection. The first week after the Resurrection of Christ is called the Bright or Easter week.

Icon of the Resurrection of Christ.

Christ's Resurrection in the Gospels

The gospels say that Jesus Christ died on the cross on Friday at about three o'clock in the afternoon and was buried before dark. On the third day after the burial of Christ, in the early morning, several women (Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Salome and Mary of Jacob and others with them) carried the incense they had bought to anoint the body of Jesus. Going to the burial place, they grieved: “Who will roll away the stone for us?” - because, as the evangelist explains, the stone was great. But the stone had already been rolled away, and the tomb was empty. This was seen by Mary Magdalene, who was the first to come to the tomb, and Peter and John, who were called by her, and the myrrh-bearing women, to whom the young man sitting at the tomb in light-bearing clothes announced the Resurrection of Christ. The four Gospels describe this morning in the words of various witnesses who came to the tomb one after another. There are also stories about how the resurrected Christ appeared to the disciples and talked with them.

The meaning of the holiday

For Christians, this holiday means the transition from death to eternal life with Christ - from earth to heaven, which is also proclaimed by Easter hymns: “Easter, Easter of the Lord! From death to life, and from earth to heaven, Christ God has led us, singing victoriously.

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ revealed the glory of His Divinity, hidden until then under the cover of humiliation: shameful and terrible death on the cross next to crucified criminals and thieves.

With His Resurrection, Jesus Christ blessed and confirmed the resurrection for all people.

History of Easter

The Old Testament Passover (Pesach) was celebrated as a remembrance of the exodus of the sons of Israel from Egypt and deliverance from slavery. What is Pesach

In apostolic times, Easter united two memories: the sufferings and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The days preceding the Resurrection were called the Passover of Suffering. Days after the Resurrection - Easter of the Cross or Easter of the Resurrection.

In the first centuries of Christianity, different communities celebrated Easter in different time. In the East, in Asia Minor, it was celebrated on the 14th day of the month of Nisan (March-April), no matter what day of the week this number falls on. The Western Church celebrated Easter on the first Sunday after the spring full moon.

At the First Ecumenical Council in 325, it was decided to celebrate Easter everywhere at the same time on the Alexandrian Paschalia. This continued until the 16th century, when the unity of Western and Eastern Christians in the celebration of Easter and other holidays was broken. calendar reform Pope Gregory XIII.

The Orthodox Church determines the date of the celebration of Easter according to the Alexandrian Paschalia: the holiday must be on the Sunday after the Jewish Passover, after the full moon and after spring equinox.

Church celebration of Easter

Since ancient times, the Easter service has been held at night. Like the people chosen by God - the Israelites, who were awake on the night of their deliverance from Egyptian slavery, Christians do not sleep on the sacred pre-holiday night of the Bright Resurrection of Christ.

Shortly before midnight on Great Saturday, the Midnight Office is served, at which the priest and deacon approach the Shroud (a canvas depicting the body of Jesus Christ taken down from the cross) and take it to the altar. The shroud is placed on the throne, where it must remain for 40 days until the day of the Ascension of the Lord (June 13, 2014) - in memory of the forty days of Christ's stay on earth after His Resurrection.

Exactly at midnight, with the Royal Doors closed, the clergy in the altar quietly sing the stichera: “Thy Resurrection, Christ the Savior, the angels sing in heaven, and vouchsafe us on earth with a pure heart to glorify Thee.” After that, the veil is drawn back (the curtain behind the Royal Doors from the side of the altar), and the clergy again sing the same stichera, but this time loudly. The Royal Doors open, and the stichera, in an even higher voice, is sung by the clergy for the third time up to the middle, and the choir of the temple sings the end. The priests leave the altar and, together with the people, like the myrrh-bearing women who came to the tomb of Jesus Christ, go around the temple in a procession with the singing of the same stichera.

Procession

The procession of the cross means the procession of the Church towards the resurrected Savior. Having gone around the temple, the procession stops in front of its closed doors, as if at the entrance to the Holy Sepulcher. The ringing stops. The rector of the temple and the clergy sing the joyful Easter troparion three times: “Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and bestowing life (life) on those in the tombs!”. Then the abbot recites the verses of the ancient prophetic psalm of King David: “May God arise and His enemies (enemies) be scattered…”, and the choir and the people sing in response to each verse: “Christ is risen from the dead…”. Then the priest, holding a cross and a three-candlestick in his hands, makes the sign of the cross with them at the closed doors of the temple, they open, and everyone, rejoicing, enters the church, where all the lamps and lamps are lit, and they all sing together: “Christ is risen from the dead!” .

Matins

Then they serve Paschal Matins: they sing the canon compiled by St. John of Damascus. Between the songs of the Paschal Canon, priests with a cross and a censer go around the temple and greet the parishioners with the words: “Christ is Risen!”, To which the faithful answer: “Truly Risen!”.

At the end of Matins, after the Paschal canon, the priest reads the "Word of St. John Chrysostom", which tells with inspiration about the joy and significance of this day. After the service, all those praying in the temple christenate with each other, congratulating on the great holiday.

Immediately after Matins, the Easter Liturgy is served, where different languages read the beginning of the Gospel of John (if several priests serve). On Easter, all those who pray, if possible, partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ.

After the end of the festive service, Orthodox Christians usually "break their fast" - they treat themselves to consecrated painted eggs and Easter cakes at the temple or at home. About the tradition of baking Easter cakes

Why are eggs painted at Easter?

In Palestine, the tombs were arranged in caves, and the entrance was closed with a stone, which was rolled off when they were supposed to lay the deceased.

Easter, the day of the Resurrection of Christ - the most important holiday Orthodox Church. That is the main meaning Orthodox faith- God himself became a man, died for us and, having resurrected, delivered people from the power of death and sin. Easter is a holiday of holidays!

Easter. A bit of history

EASTER ends the seven-week great post preparing the faithful for the proper meeting of the holiday.

During the entire Holy Week preceding EASTER, the main preparations for the holiday were made, including cleaning and whitewashing houses, etc. (see Holy Thursday), women baked special Easter bread (paska, Easter cake), painted and painted eggs, baked piglets (in Ukraine and Belarus). Easter dishes were consecrated in the church, usually on the eve of the holiday or on the first day of EASTER. During Holy Week, men were engaged in preparing firewood for the Easter fire, stocking up fodder for livestock, etc.

Easter celebrations began with a procession, when a procession of parishioners, led by clergy, left the church and walked around it, and then returned to the church doorstep; here the priest announced the Resurrection of Christ, after which the people returned to the temple, where the festive service continued.

History of Easter, Easter customs and meals

The history of Easter has its roots in ancient times. Approximately 5 thousand years ago, the Jewish tribes celebrated it in the spring as a holiday of cattle calving, then Easter was associated with the beginning of the harvest, and later with the departure of the Jews from Egypt. Christians, on the other hand, put a different meaning into this day and celebrate it in connection with the resurrection of Christ.

At the first Ecumenical Council Christian churches in Nicaea (325), it was decided to postpone the Orthodox holiday a week later than the Jewish one. By decree of the same council, Easter is to be celebrated on the first Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox. Thus, the holiday wanders in time and falls every year on different days from March 22 to April 25, according to the old style.

Having come to Rus' from Byzantium, Christianity also brought the ritual of celebrating Easter. The entire week preceding this day is usually called the Great, or Passionate. Highlight last days Holy Week: Maundy Thursday - as a day of spiritual purification, acceptance of the sacrament, Good Friday- as another reminder of the suffering of Jesus Christ, Great Saturday - the day of sorrow, and finally, the Bright Resurrection of Christ.

The Orthodox Slavs had many customs, rituals dedicated to the days of the Great Week. So, Maundy Thursday is traditionally called pure, and not only because on this day every Orthodox person seeks to cleanse himself spiritually, to take communion, to accept the sacrament established by Christ. On Maundy Thursday, the folk custom of cleansing with water was widespread - bathing in an ice hole, river, lake or dousing in a bath before sunrise. On this day, they cleaned the hut, washed and cleaned everything.

Beginning with Clean Thursday preparing for festive table, painted and painted eggs. By ancient tradition painted eggs were laid on fresh sprouted greens of oats, wheat, and sometimes on delicate green tiny leaves of watercress, which were specially sprouted in advance for the holiday. From Thursday they cooked paska, baked Easter cakes, women, pancakes, small products made from the best wheat flour with the image of crosses, lambs, cockerels, hens, doves, larks, as well as honey gingerbread. Easter gingerbread differed from regular topics that had the silhouettes of a lamb, a bunny, a cockerel, a dove, a lark and an egg.

The Easter table differed from the festive splendor, it was delicious, plentiful and very beautiful. Wealthy hosts served 48 different dishes according to the number of days of the expired fast.

The holiday lasted all Bright Week, the table remained set, invited to the table, treated, especially those who could not or did not have such an opportunity, welcomed the poor, the poor, the sick.

The Resurrection of Christ is the most big celebration Orthodox Christians. Western Christians have the biggest holiday of Christmas. Every person has a birthday, and that the Lord Jesus Christ has a birthday, it says nothing about who He is. Only the Lord God could resurrect, therefore the Resurrection of Christ says that Jesus Christ is indeed the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Lord God, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity.

The Resurrection of Christ is the essence of the Orthodox faith. “If Christ is not risen, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith is also in vain,” the Apostle Paul addresses Christians. Once he was preaching in Athens. The inhabitants of the city, from ancient times famous for their curiosity about everything new, seemed ready to listen to Paul ... He spoke to them about the One God, about the creation of the world, about the need for repentance, about the appearance of Jesus Christ into the world. The Athenians listened with interest to the apostle until he started talking about the resurrection. Hearing about this incredible fact, they began to disperse, throwing sarcastically to Pavel: "We will listen to you next time." The story of the resurrection of Christ seemed to them absurd.

But the main thing in Paul's preaching was precisely that Christ had risen from the dead.

Christ conquered death. By His death and resurrection, He brought to life everyone for whom the event that took place in the burial cave is an undeniable fact and is perceived so closely that it becomes a fact of his own resurrection. “If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then God will also bring those who die in Jesus with Him” (1 Thessalonians 4:14).

Christ resurrected after the Jewish Passover - a holiday established in honor of the liberation of the Israelite people from Egyptian slavery. The Resurrection of Christ became a new Pascha - the joy of liberation from the slavery of death. “The word Easter,” writes St. Ambrose of Milan, “means “transition.” So this holiday, the most solemn of the holidays, is called Old Testament Church- in remembrance of the exodus of the sons of Israel from Egypt and at the same time their deliverance from slavery, and in the New Testament Church - in commemoration of the fact that the Son of God Himself, through the Resurrection from the dead, passed from this world to the Heavenly Father, from earth to heaven, freeing us from eternal death and slavery to the enemy, giving us "the power to become children of God" (John 1:12).

The significance of the resurrection of Christ for mankind makes Easter the most significant celebration among all other holidays - the Feast of Feasts and the Triumph of Celebrations.

The nightly Easter service is permeated with optimism. Each reading and hymn echoes the words of St. John Chrysostom's catechumenical sermon, which is already read when morning wakes up outside the windows of Orthodox churches: “Death! Where is your pity? Hell! Where is your victory?

Christ conquered death. The tragedy of death is followed by the triumph of life. After His resurrection, the Lord greeted everyone with the word: “Rejoice!”. Death is no more.

This joy the apostles proclaimed to the world. They called this joy "the gospel" - the good news of the resurrection of Christ. The same joy overwhelms a person’s heart when he hears: “Christ is Risen!”, and it also echoes in him with the main words of his life: “Truly, Christ is Risen!”

How to celebrate Easter?

Easter must be prepared in advance. The Church prepares believers for the most important holiday with a seven-week fast - a time of repentance and spiritual purification. Paschal joy cannot be experienced in its entirety without fasting, even if not as strictly as the monastic rules prescribe. If you have tried to fast before Easter, you can confirm this yourself.

The celebration of Easter begins with participation in the Easter Divine Service. It is very special, different from the usual church services, very "light" and joyful. IN Orthodox churches, usually, Easter service starts exactly at midnight, but it is better to come to the temple in advance so as not to be beyond its threshold - most churches are crowded on Easter night.

At the Paschal liturgy, all believers make sure to partake of the Body and Blood of Christ. And after the service ends, the believers "Christen" - they greet each other with a kiss and the words "Christ is Risen!"

Arriving home, and sometimes right in the temple, they arrange an Easter feast. During the Easter week in all churches, as a rule, anyone who wants to ring the bells is allowed. The celebration of Easter lasts forty days - exactly as long as Christ appeared to His disciples after the Resurrection.

On the fortieth day, Jesus Christ ascended to God the Father. During the forty days of Easter, and especially in the first week - the most solemn - they visit each other, give painted eggs and Easter cakes, play Easter games.

Let's deal with... Easter!

Even non-religious people have probably noticed that numerous church holidays are being celebrated more and more loudly in our lives. The phenomenon of religious expansion is a separate, big topic. And in this article, attention will be paid to only one church holiday- Easter, considered the most important event of Christians. This year, this holiday will be celebrated on April 20. By the way, in Catholic countries it is usually celebrated 2 weeks earlier. Strange, isn't it?

Our goal is to find all the truthful information about the religious holiday Easter. Analysis of this information will help to find out whose holiday it is; who celebrates it and why; what does Christianity and other religions have to do with it; what are the real reasons for the introduction and imposition of this and other religious holidays on us.

Why did Easter attract our attention, and not some other holidays? Because this holiday is considered the most important among Christians, because there is a holiday with this name in several religions; and because between what is written in the Bible and what the priests say about this holiday, there are obvious and fundamental contradictions. So we decided to find out this question once and for all. In our research, we will rely on the text of the Bible and on our analysis of this text.

2. Christian definition of Easter

IN Christian religion Easter is defined as follows:
“Easter, the day of the Resurrection of Christ, is the most important holiday of the Orthodox Church. It is in this that the main meaning of the Orthodox faith lies - God himself became a man, died for us and, having risen, delivered people from the power of death and sin. Easter is a holiday of holidays!..” (Easter website).

“The feast of the Holy Resurrection of Christ, Easter, is the main event of the year for Orthodox Christians and the biggest Orthodox holiday. The word "Easter" came to us from the Greek language and means "transition", "deliverance". On this day, we celebrate the deliverance through Christ the Savior of all mankind from slavery to the devil and the granting of life and eternal bliss to us. Just as our redemption was accomplished by Christ's death on the cross, so by His Resurrection was granted to us immortal life. The Resurrection of Christ is the foundation and crown of our faith, it is the first and greatest truth that the apostles began to proclaim…” (website “Covenant”).

“Easter (Greek πάσχα, from Hebrew פסח‎ - Pesach, literally from Hebrew “passing by”); in Christianity also the Resurrection of Christ (Greek Η Ανάστασις του Ιησού Χριστού) - the most ancient Christian holiday; the most important feast of the liturgical year. Established in honor of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Currently, its date in each specific year is calculated according to the lunisolar calendar (movable holiday) ... ”(Wikipedia).

If you do not take into account the frank verbiage that religious sites sin, then it is written here that this “ancient Christian holiday” was established in honor of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. However, this is a lie. The Easter holiday was set much earlier and for a completely different reason! And it was originally established not for Christians, but for Jews. And if Easter were the feast of the resurrection of Jesus, and not his murder, then the living Jesus Christ would have to be depicted everywhere, and not dying in agony on the cross. Our priests lie to us even when they claim that the resurrection of Jesus is “the main event of the year for Orthodox Christians”! The Bible clearly states that the Easter holiday existed even before the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ! A little later we will show and prove it ...

In addition, it is necessary to clearly and unambiguously deal with the term "Orthodox Christianity".

Orthodoxy has never had anything to do with any religion. Orthodoxy is part Vedic worldview, the Vedic way of life of our Ancestors of the Slavic-Aryans. But not religion. There has never been a religion in Rus'. Orthodoxy is life according to the Law, according to the rules, the observance of which ensured continuous evolutionary development. This is the fundamental difference between Orthodoxy and any religion: Orthodoxy leads people up, along the path of development and knowledge; and religion pushes people down, to fanaticism and degradation - to prayers and endless begging for everything they need from the next God.

The first religion that appeared in Rus' was the Cult of Dionysius (the Greek religion), which was called Christianity only in the Middle Ages, or rather, in the 16th century. And Orthodoxy has existed for over 10,000 years. It was created to help in the development of people who survived after the world nuclear war and the planetary catastrophe that followed it, which occurred about 13 thousand years ago. Then there was a turn of the earth's axis, and the "great flood", and "nuclear winter", and the almost complete savagery of all who survived after this horror. Almost everything was destroyed, and the task was to at least survive.

Knowledge was quickly forgotten and lost as unnecessary. And then those of our Ancestors who managed to evacuate the planet in time on the Whitemans, Whitemars and through the Gates of the Interworld came up with a code for the survivors simple Rules, observance of which made it possible not to descend to the level of intelligent animals, but to gradually return to their own high level evolutionary development, which the Slavic-Aryans had before the Catastrophe. This is what Orthodoxy is. It has nothing to do with Christianity or any other religion...

And the fact that churchmen began to call themselves "Orthodox Christians" is a trick, or, more simply, a deception. They diligently destroyed the truthful information about Orthodoxy, and hoped that the flock would always stupidly and obediently follow the shepherds of the Jewish god Jehovah. And for a while it was. But now everything has changed radically. The adverse effect on Humanity of the "Night of Svarog" ended, and people began to wake up from the mental sleep in which they had been immersed for the last thousand years.

In addition, other important events took place that were of decisive importance not only for our planet, but also for millions of other inhabited planets and civilizations in the Universe.

3. Jewish definition of Passover (Pesach)

In the Jewish religion (Judaism), the holiday of Passover (Pesach) is defined as follows:
“Pesach (Hebrew פֶּסַח‎, lit. “passed, walked around”, in Ashkenazi pronunciation - Passover / Passover; Aram. פִּסְחָא‎, Pischa; in Greek and Russian - Easter) - the central Jewish holiday in memory of the Exodus from Egypt. It begins on the 15th day of the spring month of Nisan and is celebrated for 7 days in Israel and 8 outside of Israel ... In memory of these events in Jerusalem, it was prescribed to perform a ritual slaughter of a one-year-old male lamb, without blemish, which should be baked on fire and eaten completely …” (Wikipedia).

As can be seen from this definition, the Jews appointed the Easter holiday in order to thank their God Jehovah with sacrifices for allegedly sparing the Jewish firstborn when he killed everyone else in Egypt (the so-called 10th plague). The Bible says this about it: the Jewish slaves were ordered by their God to slaughter the lambs, and anoint the doors of their houses with their blood, so that the angels, when they perform mass executions, could distinguish the houses of “their own” from the houses of the Egyptians. And so, allegedly for this service, the Jews to this day thank their God with sacrifices and call it the word “Pesach” ...

4. Where did the Christian holiday Easter come from?

As can be seen from these definitions, the reasons for the appearance of both the Christian and Jewish holidays of Passover are completely different. Moreover, these well-known reasons are not true. In fact, the reason for the appearance of the Jewish holiday Pesach is somewhat different. But we will not consider it here. Our theme is somewhat different.

But the reason for the appearance of Christian Easter is of great interest to us. It is generally accepted that Christian Easter appeared as a celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ after the cruel execution on the cross. However, the Bible clearly states that the Passover holiday existed even before the crucifixion of Jesus.

Firstly, in the text of the book of the Bible itself, we found another peculiar Table of Contents, placed for some reason at the very end of the book (we mean the book "Bible", Publishing House "Bible Societies", Moscow, 1995. ISBN 5-85524- 007-X). This table of contents is called "Sequence gospel events according to the four gospels. We will not give it in full (it takes 11 pages), but we will write out only some of the headings:

The deeds of the Lord Jesus Christ in Judea after His temptation in the wilderness until the first Passover
The Works of the Lord Jesus Christ in Galilee on His Return from Judea
Ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ from the first Easter to the second
Events on the way from Judea to Galilee
Ministry of Jesus Christ in Galilee
Ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ from the second Easter to the third
Sermon and miracles of Jesus Christ in Galilee
Events from the third Easter to the fourth - Easter of suffering ...

And this Passover was Jewish. The text of the Bible says so directly: “the Passover of the Jews was drawing near ...” (John 2:13).

From these headings it is clear that the career of Jesus Christ in Judea and the surrounding area lasted a little more than 3 years (from the 1st to the 4th Easter). After that, he was brutally murdered - crucified on the cross. And then he resurrected (he really was revived by those who sent him), and this event allegedly was the reason for the creation of the Easter holiday among Christians.

As we can see, everything here is greatly distorted and mixed up: the priests say one thing, the Bible says something else, but in fact, a completely third or even fourth thing happened. The fact that the Jewish Passover existed even before the crucifixion of Jesus is beyond doubt: the exodus from Egypt did take place several thousand years before this ritual murder. And it is believed that this event is celebrated by the Jews on the feast of Passover.
But the attempt of the employees of the church corporation to establish in our heads the idea that the "Christian Easter" is not at all the same as the Jewish one, is a real attempt to manipulate consciousness, i.e. zombies! This "holiday" is one and the same! Feast of Sacrifice! And to prove it today is not difficult at all.

To begin with, you can find out exactly where the execution of Jesus Christ took place?

Now this is pretty easy to do. For example, to the question “Where was Christ crucified?” Google immediately issues an article by Yaroslav Kesler “Where Christ was crucified and when the Apostle Paul lived”, in which the author, after reading the Bible on English language, very convincingly shows that Jesus Christ was executed in Constantinople, and the churchmen - the founders of Judeo-Christianity - corrected the necessary places in various translations of the Bible to hide this fact:

“... Tsar-Grad, Constantinople or Istanbul. Tsar-Grad and its bald mountain Beykos ... - this is the place great tragedy, opposite Gul Gata - i.e., in Swedish, "Golden Gate", a place that turned into "Golgotha" for Jesus Christ (by the way, there is also a colossal tomb in which the Old Testament Joshua is believed to be buried , which in the Western European versions of the New Testament is simply called Jesus, i.e. Jesus). So, according to the considered phrase from the Gospel, the Galatians-Jews crucified Christ in Constantinople, and not at all in present-day Jerusalem ... "

Another proof that the murder of Jesus Christ took place in Constantinople was found in the book of Nosovsky G.V. and Fomenko A.T. "A New Chronology of Rus', England and Rome". They managed to calculate not only the place (Constantinople), but also the exact date this event - February 16, 1086! It was on this day and in this place that a total solar eclipse occurred at the same time (very a rare event) and an earthquake.

And Nikolai Levashov managed to find irrefutable facts explaining some inconsistencies that previously defied logic. In the 2nd volume of his autobiographical book “The Mirror of My Soul”, he provides unique information that allows him to dot all i's in this specially confusing story. He found evidence that Jerusalem in the 11th century AD. was in Constantinople, the capital of Byzantium. It turns out that the word "Jerusalem" for many centuries meant not the name of the city, but the place where at that moment the headquarters of the high priest was located:
“…there have always been several Jerusalems, according to the number of high priests! Sometimes the ruler of the country and the high priest had their headquarters in the same city, then this city had a double name, secular - the capital, and spiritual - Jerusalem! .. ”(Chapter 5).

And in this book of his, Nikolai Levashov explains who Pontius Pilate really was. The Bible says that he was a Governor, not a Roman governor. In the 27th chapter of the Gospel of Matthew there are the following words: “On the feast of Passover, the ruler had the custom of releasing to the people one prisoner whom they wanted ...” (Matt. 27:15). It is written here that on the Easter holiday it was customary to release one sentenced person ... And the custom is something that has been formed for centuries. This means that the Ruler of the area where the trial and execution of Jesus Christ took place adhered to the established custom of releasing one of the criminals on the Easter holiday, which was probably celebrated even longer than the custom existed.

The trial and execution of Jesus took place in Constantinople, which means that the Ruler mentioned in the Bible ruled Byzantium (Romea), and not Judea, which, according to information from the Bible, occupied an area of ​​only 70x80 km, i.e. like a normal city today middle class. In addition, in reality, no “Roman Empire” ever existed, and no “Romans” conquered Judea. This is documented. The tale of this Empire was invented in order to hide information about another, real Empire that actually existed for many thousands of years - about the great Slavic-Aryan Empire, which in the Middle Ages began to be called the Great Tartary.

Nosovsky and Fomenko put forward the following, very logical version of who Pontius Pilate was: “Jesus is being judged by Pontius Pilate, that is, by Pontius Pilate. The word "Pilate" in the old Russian language had the meaning of "executioner", "tormentor", hence Russian word"to pilat" - to torment, to tyrannize (V. Dahl, see "to pilat"). Thus, the Pontic Pilate is the Pontic Executioner, the Pontic Torturer. Therefore, it is possible that the Gospel Pilate is not a proper name, but a position.

The Pontic Pilate is simply the Pontic judge, that is, the state official who administers the court and under whose command the executioners are…”
And then on the Internet you can find in a couple of minutes the one who was the emperor of Byzantium in 1086 AD, i.e. the one who was hidden in the Bible behind the title of "Pontius Pilate". At this time the ruler Byzantine Empire was Alexei I Komnenos (circa 1048-1118), who was the Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118.

The miniature of the XII century depicts the Byzantine Emperor Alexei I Komnenos with Jesus Christ.

This is direct evidence that Jesus Christ lived in the 11th century AD and met with Emperor Alexei I Komnenos. And direct evidence that he was executed in Constantinople are several paintings that depict the crucifixion of Jesus Christ against the backdrop of the sea bay ...

Antonello da Messina, "Crucifixion", 1475, Konrad Witz, "Crucifixion".

Thus, we found out exactly when and where the execution of Jesus Christ took place: it took place in the capital of Byzantium, Constantinople, in 1086 AD. And now you can understand why in Byzantium those years they celebrated Easter, who were sitting in Jerusalem, and, accordingly, why “on the feast of Easter, the ruler had the custom of releasing one prisoner to the people ...”.

In biblical times, the Cult of Dionysius dominated the territory of the Roman (Byzantine) Empire! Or, as it was often called, the Greek religion!

In all these religions, the gods also died and rose again. All these cults were copies of the cult of Osiris and were created specifically in order to use them to divide people, zombie and unleash religious wars between them.

Thus, everything falls into place: and the celebration of Easter in Constantinople in the 11th century AD; and the presence of a custom to release a prisoner for a holiday; and time of execution; and place of execution. It remains only to understand that the "Christian" Easter came from the same place as the "Greek" - from Judaism, and has nothing to do with the resurrection of Jesus Christ!

5. Why was Jesus Christ killed?

Oddly enough, part of the answer to this question can also be found in the text. Holy Scripture I mean, the Bible. First, reading New Testament”, you notice that the “voluntary” death of Jesus Christ was not entirely voluntary, or rather, completely involuntary. He was brutally executed! The Jews sacrificed him to their "God" Jehovah (aka Yahweh) on the Passover holiday!

The question immediately arises point-blank: how dare they execute the "son of God"? God would have to immediately “pulverize them”?! Quite right! So it would be if God were the only one, as the priests say, and Jesus Christ was his son. Or if Jesus really was the son of that God whom the Jews revere as their superior. That's when he would have shown them "Kuzkin's mother"! Or rather, then they would not have thought of killing him. It would not be, for what! He would be from the same gang as the "daddy", and would act along with him!

However, Jesus was executed! And this means that he was not from Jehovah's gang, but was both his enemy and the Jews zombified by him. There are even several wonderful places in the New Testament about this, when Jesus tells the Jews "... your father is the devil ..." and so on. Therefore, there was no question of any voluntary sacrifice on the part of Jesus in order to atone for the sins of others!

And in general, if you think about it: why on earth would a normal God suddenly allow to kill his only son, heir, in order to redeem something on some planet for someone? This unpretentious fantasy can only be believed by people of a “religious mental state.”

In fact, our priests are lying again! Moreover, they lie desperately, in writing lie to millions of their parishioners! They, too, have fallen into the trap of the Dark Ones they serve: if they tell the truth, the parishioners will scatter, and they will even hit faces with crosses. And then the church corporation will become just nothing, an empty place. And they are already so accustomed to power, accustomed to eating sweets and not denying themselves anything.

Returning to the question of the reason for the ritual murder of Jesus Christ, we can and should say the following. From the books of Nikolai and Svetlana Levashov, we now know a lot about the personality and life of Radomir (this is the real name of the one who was once called Jesus Christ to hide the truth about him). Radomir was the son of the white Magus and the sorceress Mary, who had nothing to do with the Jews.

Unfortunately, the Dark Ones were stronger at that time. The Light Hierarchs, who led the earthly civilization, could not adequately resist the cunning, meanness and treachery of the cosmic "jackals" and their assistants. The Jews seized Radomir and put him to a painful death - they sacrificed him to their God Jehovah just in time for the Passover holiday. And it was precisely for this ritual murder of a Light Hierarch of such a level that Jehovah promised his helper slaves deliverance from karma during their centuries-old service to Evil.

6. Why are we forced to celebrate religious holidays?

And really, why? Why are we encouraged in one way or another to celebrate many religious holidays? Are the churchmen really concerned that we have a good rest, that we good mood to be healthy and happy? To have healthy, smart and happy children? In no case!

Oddly enough, churchmen try to keep their flocks in blackness, despair and hopelessness. And they need it in order to break the will of people, the natural desire for Light and Life. People with a broken will cannot resist anything, but can only beg and beg. This is exactly what our implacable enemies need - Dark Forces- and church miners who have been working for them for centuries. They zombify the flock with religious intoxication, accustom them to passivity and freebies (you just need to pray well and ask) and simply cynically set everyone up. This is well illustrated by gloomy church paraphernalia and widespread advertising of the crucified and bloodied Jesus Christ.

It would seem, why should everyone go in cycles in the process of torment during the ritual murder of the beloved and revered God? But this is the whole point of the Jewish religion of Christianity. By this they support their hatred for Radomir, and at the same time teach the goyim (non-Jews) to suffering, long-suffering (“Jesus endured and commanded us ...”), despair and hopelessness, like the goy God - Jesus Christ, betrayed by the Jews to martyrdom.

3. Draining energy (life force) from many people

These simple conclusions can be easily drawn from the information found and analyzed.

A lot of pictures can be found if you ask Google for an image search on a query with the words "SEMANA SANTA". You will be amazed at the results! You will see not only huge, maddening crowds of people who annually in a frenzy repeat the suffering of Radomir during the ritual execution. You will see that Christianity is a religion of death, and you will understand all of it. mortal danger for each of us and for all Humanity…

Dmitry Baida

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Great Easter is the first and main Christian holiday. However, not all Orthodox are aware that Easter existed long before the resurrection of Christ. Pagans celebrated Easter five thousand years ago. They claimed that on this day all the souls of the dead leave the heavenly haven and descend to earth to visit their graves. From here, the custom was born to come to cemeteries on Easter and bring treats loved by the deceased. It is known that the Jews dated Easter to the beginning of the harvest, and later the Great Day was tied to the departure of the Jews from Egypt.

The Christian Church personified the holiday with the resurrection of Christ and introduced a new meaning to Easter - rebirth from death to eternal existence. According to Christian rules, on the day of Bright Sunday, one cannot come to cemeteries and yearn for the dead. Great Easter is a joyful holiday that should be celebrated with jubilation.

Christian Easter was approved shortly after the resurrection of Jesus Christ. At the beginning, she did not have a common date for the celebration - in different churches she was met at different times. Only in 325 during Ecumenical Council Christian churches decided to celebrate Orthodox Easter a week after the Jewish one, or rather, on the very first Sunday after the Easter full moon. There is no fixed date for the Resurrection of Christ, every year the holiday is appointed on different calendar dates from April to May, but it always falls on the last day of the week - Sunday.

Orthodox Easter traditions

The celebration of the Great Day is shrouded in a number of customs and traditions. Before Easter, believers are waiting for a strict seven-week fast. Everyone who has fasted at least once knows that without this ritual it is impossible to feel the fullness of Easter joy. During fasting, it is forbidden to eat animal food, but its main task is spiritual purification.

The solemn celebration of the Resurrection of Christ begins at midnight sharp and takes place in all Orthodox churches. Easter Service differs from other church services with lightness and joy. Each believer seeks to partake of the Body and Blood of Christ, and after the service, jubilant people shower each other with the symbolic greeting "Christ is Risen!" and kiss. By tradition, the younger ones should be the first to greet the elders. After the service and throughout the Easter week, anyone has the opportunity to ring the bells.

Easter is celebrated for 40 days, but the first week is considered the most important. Immediately after the service, the faithful arrange magnificent feasts, set the table with meat snacks and all kinds of delicacies. Mandatory attributes of Christ's Resurrection are colored eggs consecrated in the church, rich cakes and Easter cakes from cottage cheese. They start the morning meal with these dishes, they go to visit with them all week and exchange with relatives and just people they meet.

Painted eggs always accompanied Easter, games, competitions and various ceremonies were arranged with them. To be young and beautiful, women dipped the consecrated krashenka in water, and then sprinkled their faces with this water. Initially, the eggs were painted only red, but later talented craftsmen began to create real artistic masterpieces from them using painting.

On the days of the celebration of the Great Resurrection, it is forbidden to work, it is believed that household chores can take away happiness and good luck. During the Easter week, you can and should pray and make wishes - God will definitely hear and help you achieve your goals.